Living in Second Life versus Acting in Flash Mob Re Thinking Place through Virtual and Urban Play

The aim of this paper is to display the ways in which an online digital game and an urban action may serve as media to explore how people realize and experience place. After briefly describing the way that these two practices operate, it studies how they relate to individuals’ perception of the contemporary environment and finally it raises questions concerning the concept of place.

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Aikaterini Antonopoulou

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Publication date: June 2010

Publication date (Print): June 2010

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[0001]PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh

20 Chambers St. EH1 1JZ Edinburgh

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/CREATE2010.37

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Conference name: Create10 - The interaction design conference

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Conference location: Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Conference date: 30 June - 2 July 2010

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Create10 - The interaction design conference

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Living in Second Life versus Acting in Flash Mob Re Thinking Place through Virtual and Urban Play

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